Senior AI Operations Engineer – Scalable Automation

Checkr; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Stock options

Work from home opportunities

Health plans – 100% premiums covered

Competitive compensation

Snacks and drinks

Wellness programs

Flexible PTO

Transit reimbursement

Job summary

Checkr is seeking a Staff Operations AI Engineer to architect and refine the intelligent systems powering AI-driven operations. You will design integrations, workflows, and data structures that enable AI Agents to operate reliably at scale, across systems and third‑party platforms.

You’ll own end-to-end initiatives, serve as a technical authority across teams, and build robust, observable systems that boost operational efficiency and AI performance.

Qualifications

• Solid SQL experience for data transformation, validation, and operational analytics (Snowflake a plus).
• Deep expertise in API design, OAuth/token-based authentication, webhooks, and event-driven systems.
• Advanced comfort with JSON, schemas, and data normalization for LLM and automation use cases.
• Hands-on experience running LLM-powered agents or automations in production, including guardrails and output validation, with proven experience in prompt engineering frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architect integrations enabling AI Agents to operate safely across Checkr systems and third‑party platforms.
• Build production‑grade API integrations with secure authentication, webhooks, and event-driven orchestrations.
• Ensure AI-driven operations are resilient with error handling, retries, observability, and fallbacks.
• Lead technical solutions to gaps, bottlenecks, and failure modes to improve reliability and scale.
• Establish engineering standards for workflow design, code quality, and system observability.

Skills

SQL

API design

LLM prompts

Python

JavaScript

Observability

Retry & error handling

Data transformation

JSON schemas

Guardrails

Snowflake

Salesforce integration

Zendesk integration

Tray.io / Make / Zapier

Tools

Snowflake

OAuth authentication

Webhooks

Tray.io

Make

Zapier

UiPath

Job description

Checkr is seeking a Staff Operations AI Engineer to architect and refine the intelligent systems powering AI-driven operations. You will design integrations, workflows, and data structures that enable AI Agents to operate reliably at scale, across systems and third‑party platforms.

You’ll own end-to-end initiatives, serve as a technical authority across teams, and build robust, observable systems that boost operational efficiency and AI performance.